Also this is entered in the Bike month contest, please do vote or rate this 'ible if you like it...

Another Also, it is best advised to wear a helmet for cycling, was being naughty and arrogant by not, even though most of these were performed at low speed, to help the camera, I know I have no excuse at all for the jumping and I would like to make it clear that a helmet is the most important accesory a person can have for their bicycle...

Step 1: The slide...

Ok we're starting with the most basic showing off you can do, alway fun on loose ground and wet days, also it's the easiest trick to pull off.

Basically the plan is to lock the back wheel up and get the back end to step out by turning like that so.

Going at moderate speed on loose ground or on wet ground, you can do it on any surface but it'll wreck your tyres...

See a turn you'd like to slide around...

Pull the back brake hard, once the wheel locks up you'r e free to turn whenever...

When you're turning allow the end to step out and if you get uncomfortable you simply let go of the brake and go on as normal.

You can either skid to a halt or slide around a turn and let off the back brake and continue on.

If you don't know this one already you can get more comfortable by starting on slippy ground and just going at medium speed, lock the back wheel and make small turning movements to get used to the feeling of it.

Once you get better you can start fishtailing etc. this is where you add turns in the opposite direction to eachother and swing the end about.

Sliding can come in handy in lots of situations, on forest trails when you seriously misjudge a turn sliding around it at high speed can be alot easier than attempting to brake and turn with the front which leads to washing out...

If you go too low and start to fall you can kick the ground with the inside leg to lean up or just drop down and slide to a halt, in most cases I find falling from a badly judged slide far less painful than when you wash out.

I live in the middle of the forest. I am OBSESSED with biking. I figured out a much easier way. What I do, and this depends on ur natural position on the bike. I go at a considerably slow speed. Then before I pull up, like a wheelie, I hook one of my feet under one of the pedals, the pedal is at its peak, and pull up. Both of my tires to up in the air, however I do have to lean forwards a bit but that is just normal for me. Hope this helps!!

Know that feeling... Last time I crashed I fractured my left elbow, had road rash half way up that forearm, tore up my leg, dented a hip bone, fractured/broke a bunch of bones in my wrist and got to work on time. Though I was covered in blood and my nasty work shirt was burnt to my arm...

Other ways a frozen turkey can hurt you: -If you don't thaw it before you drop it in a turkey frier. (The water and ice boils to quickly that it will send a giant column of boiling steam and oil high up in the air.) -Frozen turkey launched out of a compressed air canon used for airplane windshield testing. (To name a couple.)

Why is it people don't understand basic, no that's not a big jump, the fact that I couldn't even get a good photo of some stuff because at the time I was using a very old camera and my brother as a cameraman doesn't help but starting small, I was considering doing a second instructable about more advanced stuff.

for what its worth? I tried for ages, to bunny hop by chance wobbling home drunk on me bike, i did one..... took me ages to get there again, until I realised its about shifting weight, Stand up on your pedals as you roll slowly, you have to push down with both your arms and feet like compressing a spring, then push up on the handlebars and pedals, releasing explosively your body mass upwards, as your body weight reaches the top of its travel, pull your legs and arms closer in to you, effectively recompressing your body like a spring again, you will find the the mass of the bike rises off the ground. Now either hang in the air and land in this compressed manner or push down again so the bike touches down with your arms and legs bent to absorb it. This with practice makes a flat horizontal bunny hop, pulling up on the bars and then your feet makes the bikes front wheel get up quickly followed by the back, I call this an American bunny hop or up and over as I use to clear obstacles

I use the technique of shifting my feet up directly aswell, I can do a bunnyhop, my brother just can't take a photo of one... No he can't do one, which made the whole thing more difficult because he's an ok photographer but our camera is awful, need to get my new one...

Not a Wheelie. Its a Cat Walk. A Wheelie you stay seated and ride on your back tire. If I am correct you actually stand up and pedal up and keep pedaling, which is a Cat Walk. Also your Bunny-hop is incorrect. Your doing a Curb Hop. Curb hop you bring the front wheel up first before raising the back tire. A Bunny-hop is bring both up at the same time.

naw, sorry but your wrong. A bunny hop is when you bring front, then back tires off the ground. It helps you clear obstacles and fly higher. And also a "Cat walk" is actually a Manuel bmx.transworld.net/features/foundations-bunnyhop/

Wesley is correct: a bunny hop is when you bring both wheels up at the same time, however, where you may be getting confused is that when some people do a bunny hop, IF their technique is not super-clean, the biker will indeed FIRST lift the front wheel, then (but VERY shortly after, maybe 2 tenths of a second) will bring up the rear, but the essence of the bunny hop is that BOTH wheels should be off the ground at the same time, and for most of the duration of the hop. I hope that clears it up.

Well, i think there is a difference in style here... the point of raising the front wheel first is to actually hop higher, as you can lift the front wheel off the ground, above the obstacle and then push off with your back wheel to the level of your front wheel and over the obstacle. If that makes any sense, you will understand what i am saying. But, then again, as long as it works, who cares? I certainly stopped in March of 2010.

No, I'm 100% sure a bunny hop you bring both up at the same time, Curb Hop is bring front up then the back. You also should note that the internet isn't a very good source. 80% of the internet is porn, 15% is incorrect and only 5% is actually correct, factual information. And I am also correct about the Cat Walk. Wheelie you stay seated while coasting or pedaling, a Cat Walk is a standing position while pedaling.